Deaths
- January 15 - William de Morgan, novelist
- February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist and critic
- April 9
- Edward Thomas, poet and prose writer
- R. E. Vernède, war poet
- April 14 - L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto
- April 21 - Francis Burnand, dramatist and editor of "Punch"
- July 31 - Francis Ledwidge, war poet
- July 31 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet
- November 15 - Émile Durkheim, sociologist
- November 18 - Adrien Bertrand, French novelist
- December 15 - Lady Anne Blunt, descendant of Lord Byron and wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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